revserioussam

Serious Sam The First Encounter- Are you serious?

    Me thinks this game was invented to frustrate the hell out of all those that though FPS (First Person Shooters) were too easy. Monsters spawn out of no
where and the game play if pleasantly reminicent of Doom. While you CAN
jump and duck you really don't need to. In fact I didn't know you could until about Three levels into the game. This game focuses on one thing. Killing.

    The game also has an oddball sense of humour taking after the Duke Nukem
school of hard-asses. Sam "Serious" Stone has a raspy voice, big guns, and a snappy line for every situation. The enemies are very unique. Among them, headless grunts holding a gun in one hand and their head in the other. (I keep having flashbacks of Sleepy Hollow *shudder*) Also there are a particular breed of the headless without their head at all. They run at you screaming and try to explode on you with the two bombs in thier hands. Also throw in war-mechs and giant scorpion men that shoot rockets, chainguns, or lasers and you have a grand ol' time. The setting is in Egypt oddly enough... but it has something to do with time travel. I was too distracted by the gunfire to pay attention to the plot.

     This game is far from dead. They don't make these like the used to. What's worse I got my copy for $2.99 at ElBow! (Electronic Boutique). Go out and get a copy if you like FPSs, and/or you haven't played it before. Hey you might want to pick it BACK up... Better than paying $50 for the sequel.

P.S. The boys that brought you Max Payne made this...